M. Swanson (ed.)

The Economics and Ecology of Biodiversity Decline

Herausgeber: Swanson, Timothy. M

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The cause of global change has been the subject of heated debate in the past few years, especially in relation to climate change and biodiversity decline. However, a systematic explanation for changes in the biosphere at global level has still to be found. In this volume, a wide range of viewpoints from ecology and economics are surveyed to see if some light can be shed on this problem. Economists analyse how economic growth predictably alters the Earth, and ecologists consider how the drive for fitness and consequent population growth changes the globe. Both look at the institutional interface between humans and biosphere, and explain global change as the consequence of human non-cooperation and conflict. The conclusion is left to the reader: the object of this volume is to initiate debate on global change at this most fundamental level.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780521635790
• ISBN-10: 0521635799
• Artikelnr.: 24288478

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgement; 1. Why does biodiversity
decline? The analysis of forces for global change Timothy M. Swanson; Part
I. Diversity Decline as Choice of Development Path: 2. Incentives,
development and population: a growth-theoretic perspective Jeffrey A.
Krautkraemer; 3. Biodiversity, economic growth and the discount rate Bob
Rowthorn and Gardner Brown; 4. Uniformity in development and the decline of
biological diversity Timothy M. Swanson; Part II. Diversity Decline as
Institutional Failure: 5. Decline in biodiversity and risk-adjusted net
national product John M. Hartwick; 6. Biodiversity conservation as
insurance Charles Perrings; 7. Property rights, externalities and
biodiversity Roger A. Sedjo and R. David Simpson; Part III. Diversity
Decline as Policy Failure: 8. Economic progress and habitat conservation in
Latin America Douglas Southgate; 9. Prudence and profligacy: a human
ecological perspective Madhav Gadgil; 10. Tropical deforestation:
population, poverty and biodiversity Norman Myers; Part IV. Diversity
Decline as Consequence of Development: 11. Human population dynamics and
biodiversity loss Fraser D. M. Smith, Gretchen C. Daily and Paul R.
Ehrlich; 12. Scale and the feedback mechanism in market economics Colin W.
Clark; 13. Can economics protect biodiversity? Jonathan Roughgardern;
Index.